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An evolving sensibility produced a consensus that numerical accounts of population were vital to the management of society. Central government ordered that records be kept at the civic level of the parish. Causes of death were recorded by Searchers who wrote down what they could elicit. Accounts of such events were recorded by diarist. Samuel Pepys. Diseases and their treatment by physicians, barber-surgeons, and others are described. The work of John Graunt who analyzed 229, 250 deaths is introduced. Mortality in peak years of plague is presented.
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Jordan, T.E. (2017). London. In: Quality of Life and Mortality in Seventeenth Century London and Dublin. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44368-3_2
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